Greywater and Rainwater Capture

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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0:00.0	It's water day my friends.
0:04.0	We're talking.
0:05.0	It's
0:07.0	water.
0:10.0	It's water, my friends. We're talking water conservation for your
0:16.4	epic homestead straight out of my new epic homesteading book, shipping with the
0:20.9	free pack of seeds if you order this week. Let's talk about this.
0:24.4	We talked about energy systems already, solar, but water systems are equally
0:29.8	important. It really depends on where you live and how much you value different types of resources.
0:36.8	So in my area in San Diego, I do not have a lot of water.
0:40.7	It doesn't fall too much from the sky, so I do my best to capture and reuse as much as I can.
0:46.3	So let's first talk about some of the easiest and lowest lift things you can do to make better
0:51.4	use of water on your homestead property. The very first thing would be to just
0:56.7	utilize simple gray water systems. I say simple meaning not even any install. I know people who will just take the drain out of their
1:05.7	sink and they'll put a buck up beneath it and then they'll just use that. Maybe it's an outdoor
1:09.9	sink, they'll do that even in the kitchen if you get more extreme.
1:13.6	Now the one thing I will caution is that kitchen wastewater is actually not
1:17.6	considered gray water.
1:19.0	It's not considered gray water quality.
1:21.3	It's actually considered black water because you can get things like, you know,
1:25.2	oil residues, all sorts of different waste materials that typically you do not want to be using
1:31.1	in a landscape situation. So buyer beware on that you know do your own
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